On Sunday 09 March 2003 07:35 am, Christian Hofer wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> This weekend I have been busy trying to convince my mother, who is
> an elementary school teacher, that programming squeak with the
> children is much more fun than using "Mediator" ...
>
> Now I have been very succesful until now, but now she painted a
> beautiful landscape for her car race and saved it locally as a
> project. After reloading it the street and some trees were just
> consisting of huge pixels as if there is a bug in some compression
> algorithm. The same happened to yesterday's project file.
>
> She uses the newest SqueakPlugin, downloaded with the IE6.0, but
> started up using the desktop link, not the browser, on WinXP. Does
> anybody know the problem?

There was a problem with some recent images with respect to project 
image loading and saving.

Is the desktop link a link to a real Squeak image or VM?

If so, you might try loading updates.

Also, the picture should still be available as a separate JPG or GIF 
file in the .pr file (which is a zip archive).

You can do this:

Start Squeak.

Open a FileList.

Go to the Squeaklets directory (I think), or otherwise navigate to 
where the project is stored.

Select the project in the file list.

Using the context menu, select more/open in zip viewer.

Now select the zip member(s) with names ending in ".form". These are 
actually JPG or GIF files.

If you "inspect member" on these, you'll see either "JFIF" or "GIF" in 
the first few bytes of the contents.

You can extract these files using the zip viewer, and rename them to 
whatever.JPG or whatever.GIF as appropriate, and then just load them 
later.

-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
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